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Let’s talk about AHIMA Strategy

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2016 Environmental Scan Report• Find it in the AHIMA

Body of Knowledgeody o o edge

• Important contribution of the House of Delegates

• Helps Board of Directorsset or modify strategy

• HIM issues and trends

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• HIM issues and trends affecting the profession and healthcare

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Highlights from the Environmental Scan

• Changes to healthcare systems (business/economic, technology) lead to changes in HIM roles

• Increasing demands from consumers

• New knowledge and skill competencies i d

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are required

• Education is changing, too

The Changing Workforce

Time to update our skills:

Leadership

Analysis

Technical

Communications

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AHIMA’s Strategy

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Getting Attention for IG

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Discussion–IG PrinciplesAccountability

TTransparency

Integrity

Protection

Compliance

Availability

Retention

Disposition

Information GovernanceAssess The Health of Your Organization

IGAdvisors.com

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Information Governance

Launched this Year:

• IGHealthRate™

• IGIQ blog posts www.IGIQ.com

• Journal column “The Road to Governance”

• IG Boot camps and more!

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Applied Informatics

Data Health Intelligence

Expanding Roles

Coming Soon

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Supporting Standards

Focus on HIT standards

to support interoperabilityPublic/private approach and collaboration:

• Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)

• Health Level Seven (HL7)

• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

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• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Supporting Interoperability

Technical

ProcessSemantic

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CollaborationInteroperability & Standards

• Work with ISO/TC215, Office of the National Coordinator

• White paper “Health IT

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Standards for HIM Practices”

Innovation

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Global Initiatives

Why Go Global?• Puts HIM best practices

in the spotlight

• Raises the profession’s profile

in the spotlight

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• Elevates education and certifications

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Global Collaboration

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Leadership Development

Advancing the Workforce

The AHIMA Foundation is advancing the

workforce through education and training:

• Apprenticeship program

• Workforce and Leadership Institute

• HIM Awareness Campaign

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Supporting Students and Professionals

• Scholarship program• Veterans’ scholarships• Veterans scholarships• John Kloss Memorial

Veteran Scholarship• Global curriculum

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Public Good

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Talking about a Patient Identification Solution

AHIMA launches myHealthID campaign(March 20-April 19)

Seeking 100,000 signatures on petition to White House to lift the ban on discussion

of a voluntary patient safety identifierwww.ahima.org/myhealthID

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Spotlight on Patient Matching

Journal of AHIMA survey:• More than half of HIM professionals routinely

work on mitigating possible patient record duplicates at their facility

• Of those, 72 percent work on mitigating duplicate records weekly

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AHIMA is Here for YouBoK: bok.ahima.org

AHIMA is Here for You Practice Briefs

• Putting the ICD-10-CM/PCS GEMs into Practice (2016 update)

• Information Governance Offers a Strategic Approach for Healthcare (2015 Update)

• Data Quality Management Model (2015 Update)

• HIM Best Practices for Engaging Consumers in

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HIM Best Practices for Engaging Consumers in Their Overall Healthcare

• Best Practices in the Art and Science of Clinical Documentation Improvement

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AHIMA is Here for You Toolkits• Physician Coding Toolkit

AHIMA I f ti G T lkit• AHIMA Information Governance Toolkit

• ICD-10-CM/PCS Implementation Toolkit

• Health Data Analysis Toolkit

• And more!

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